Daniel Maynes Aminzade

Former Adjunct, Class of

Courses Taught:

Mashups: Remixing the Web

Dan Maynes Aminzade is a software engineer at Google's New Yorkoffice, where he works on Google Maps. He completed his Ph.D. inComputer Science at Stanford University, where he developed a computervision toolkit and taught a course on computer vision for HCI. Beforecoming to Stanford, Dan received his M.S. in Media Arts & Sciencesfrom the MIT Media Lab, and his B.S. in Computer Science from CarnegieMellon University. He has spent summers as a visiting researcher atWalt Disney Imagineering, Adobe Systems, Microsoft, MERL, FXPAL, andthe University of Tokyo.

Dan's interests include web technologies, mobile devices, computervision, and tangible and augmented reality interfaces that incorporatenon-traditional channels of input and output. His projects have beenexhibited at CHI, UIST, Siggraph, NextFest, NEXT, Dorkbot, ArtInteractive, and the San Jose Museum of Art, and have been written upin Engadget, Gizmodo, Slashdot and the New York Times. Dan has alsobeen profiled on TechTV, Pro7, and in the film "Nerdcore for Life."

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